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Plot Summary:
When Do We Eat? is the story of the "world's fastest Passover seder" gone horribly awry. It's about an old school dad (Michael Lerner) who's as tough on his sons as his father (Jack Klugman) is on him. On this night, however, one of the boys (Ben Feldman) slips Dad a dose of special, hallucinogenic Ecstasy in order "to give him a new perspective.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film
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Burning Palms (2010)
Plot Summary:
A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, disturbing, semi serious, surprise ending, independent film, grindhouse, art film, action thriller, offbeat
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A Wake in Providence (1999)
Plot Summary:
Going back home can be hard, particularly when you come from a traditional Italian family, and especially when the girlfriend you bring back is not Italian. But the roof caves in when she's African American. This is the problem that Anthony faces when he brings Alissa from Los Angeles to his boyhood home of Providence, Rhode Island to attend his grandfather's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Siblings (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joe (Alex Campbell) and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, erotic, offbeat, independent film, black comedy
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Being Frank (2018)
Plot Summary:
A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, satirical, semi serious, independent film, hilarious
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Crumbs (2006)
Plot Summary:
Crumbs is an American television sitcom starring Fred Savage and Jane Curtin that ran on ABC from January 12, 2006 to February 7, 2006. It also starred William Devane, Maggie Lawson and Eddie McClintock. The show's slogan is "The normal American family turned upside down." Savage played a gay screenwriter who leaves Hollywood to return home to take care of his mother, who had recently been released from a mental institution after trying to run over her husband after he left her for a younger woman. And, it turns out, the young girlfriend is also pregnant. Much of the show takes place at the family's restaurant. The series was officially cancelled on May 13, 2006.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Madhouse (1990)
Plot Summary:
The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, independent film, psychological, funny, romantic, road movie
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Soof (2013)
Plot Summary:
Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Madea gets sick, her family comes to her aid. What they don't realize is that they're the ones who need her help. As always, Madea's cockeyed outlook on life saves the day and guarantees side-splitting laughs along the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
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Cleaver Family Reunion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious, independent film
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Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990)
Plot Summary:
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed in this black comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film, cynical, biting, suspense
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Relative Strangers (2006)
Plot Summary:
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, funny, philosophical, independent film
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Father and Sons (2003)
Plot Summary:
Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il va même jusqu'à invoquer une maladie et une intervention chirurgicale pour les convaincre de l'accompagner dans un voyage au Canada, où il tentera de refaire l'unité du clan familial. Le quatuor de Français y fera la rencontre d'une guérisseuse et de sa fille.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, entertaining, emotional, realistic
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With a Little Help from Myself (2008)
Plot Summary:
Besieged matriarch Sonia tries to make certain her daughter's nuptials come off flawlessly even as events spiral out of control is in this dark comedy helmed by François Dupeyron. With Sonia's wayward eldest son under arrest on drug charges, she then discovers that her no-account hubby has gambled away the money set aside for the reception. Will Sonia and her family triumph or crumble in the face of adversity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, semi serious, gloomy, biting, suspense
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So Happy Together (2009)
Plot Summary:
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil. C'est vrai, Alain en a marre de ces dîners familiaux, mais il ne sait pas encore ce qui l'attend véritablement ce soir-là... Ni les jours qui suivent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, cynical, witty
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Passed Away (1992)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Madea's Big Happy Family The Play (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won't change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
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A Moody Christmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
Focused on the lovable, yet seasonally dysfunctional Moody family, A Moody Christmas is set against the backdrop of the one occasion that can bring out the best (and the worst) in people … Christmas Day.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, not serious
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Mom's on Strike (2002)
Plot Summary:
She was an overworked mom trying to get her family's attention. She didn't know she would become a national sensation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Together Again for the First Time (2008)
Plot Summary:
"Together Again for the First Time" tells the story of a blended family reuniting on Christmas Eve. It's the first time they've all been in the same house at the same time since the parent's marriage seven years before--which wouldn't be a problem if they all liked each other. But they don't. And matters only get worse with the unexpected arrival of an ex-boyfriend, an unannounced live television broadcast, and the outing of well-kept family secrets. This is a comic, touching movie about what it means to be a family--even when you don't like each other very much.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, christmas comedy, realistic, semi serious
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The Discoverers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, Lewis is forced to make a family detour. The Birch family find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage west.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film, whimsical
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Raising Genius (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, dark comedy, teen comedy, cult film
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Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
Plot Summary:
One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves dearly. Then their mother, his ex-wife Gloria, shows up drunk. It will take Madea's partner-in-crime, Bam, to tame this situation and set a few things straight.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Raising Flagg (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic, independent film
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Quitters (2015)
Plot Summary:
Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his father Roger stop getting along, Clark thinks about running away from home. He just needs to decide where to go.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film
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Quintuplets (2004)
Plot Summary:
Quintuplets is a quirky ensemble comedy about the trials and tribulations of two parents raising 15-year-old quintuplets in a three-bedroom home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Madea Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a family meets for Christmas at their posh Cape Cod estate, family arguments and secrets cause a stir. It takes a real down-to-earth family - like Aunt Bam and the almighty Madea - to save this holiday.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Plot Summary:
Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one week, she is suspended from school, stranded by her best friend, dumped by the boy she loved and inherits an enormous amount of money with the passing of her grandmother– only to be claimed under one condition: Maude must prove by age 18 that she knows exactly what to do with her life. But with her 18th birthday rapidly approaching, Maude must dive into a world of self-discovery or else lose the inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, clever, offbeat, independent film
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Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Plot Summary:
Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, semi autobiographical
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Plot Summary:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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All in Good Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, multicultural, sentimental, realistic, semi serious